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Eckel, Carsten - 2024

A growing empirical literature attributes much of the productivity advantages of large, "superstar" firms to their adoption of best practice management techniques that allow them to better identify and use talented workers. The reasons for the incomplete adoption of these "structured management...

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Information Frictions and Employee Sorting Between Startups

Bryan, Kevin A.; Hoffman, Mitchell; Sariri, Amir - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Would workers apply to better firms if they were more informed about firm quality? Collaborating with 26 science-based startups, we create a custom job board and invite business school alumni to apply. The job board randomizes across applicants to show coarse expert ratings of all startups'...

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Competitive Job Seekers : When Sharing Less Leaves Firms at a Loss

Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Kelley, Erin M.; Lane, Gregory V. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We study how job-seekers share information about jobs within their social network, and its implications for firms. We randomly increase the amount of competition for a job and find that job-seekers are: (i) less likely to share information about the job with their peers; and (ii) choose to...

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The Internet, Search Frictions and Aggregate Unemployment

Bhuller, Manudeep; Ferraro, Domenico; Kostøl, Andreas … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How has the internet affected search and hiring, and what are the implications for aggregate unemployment? Answering … the availability of high-speed internet in Norway with large-scale survey and administrative data on hiring firms, job …% shorter vacancy durations and 13% fewer unsuccessful hiring attempts. While the expansion increased job-finding rates by 2 …

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National Wage Setting

Hazell, Jonathon; Patterson, Christina; Sarsons, Heather; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How do firms set wages across space? Using job-level vacancy data and a survey of HR managers, we show that 40-50% of a job's posted wages are identical across locations within a firm. Moreover, nominal posted wages within the firm vary relatively little with local prices, a pattern we verify...

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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants

Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...

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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?

Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric--making unlicensed workers an illegal substitute for licensed workers but not the reverse. We test our hypothesis using a difference-in-differences event study research design...

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Countries for Old Men : An Analysis of the Age Pay Gap

Bianchi, Nicola; Paradisi, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This study investigates the growing wage disparity between older and younger workers in high-income countries. We propose a conceptual framework of the labor market in which firms cannot change the contracts of older employees and cannot freely add higher-ranked positions to their organizations....

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The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources : Evidence from Germany

Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...

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Bringing Them In or Pushing Them Out? The Labor Market Effects of Pro-cyclical Unemployment Assistance Changes

Domènech-Arumí, Gerard; Vannutelli, Silvia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We exploit an unanticipated labor market reform in 2012 Spain to estimate the effects of pro-cyclical changes in long-term unemployment assistance (UA). The reform raised the minimum age to receive unlimited-duration UA from 52 to 55. Using a difference-in-differences design, we document that...

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